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AN APARTMENT FIRE IN LAFAYETTE HAS DISPLACED SEVERAL FAMILIES. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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THE ABBEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS THAT THERE WERE NO PROVEN HOMOCIDES IN TWENTY-TWENTY-THREE. POLICE CHIEF MIKE HARDY SAYS THERE WAS ONE PERSON SHOT AND KILLED AT THE LIVE OAK MANOR APARTMENTS IN OCTOBER, BUT THEY HAVEN’T DETERMINED YET IF IT WAS ACCIDENTAL OR INTENTIONAL. HARDY TELLS KLFY TV ONE OF HIS MAJOR FOCUSES FOR THIS YEAR IS HIRING MORE OFFICERS AND GETTING THEM ON THE ROAD, TO HELP REDUCE CRIME. STARTING PAY FOR ABBEVILLE POLICE OFFICERS HAS INCREASED TO FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has announced that once he leaves office next week he will join a New Orleans-based law firm where he will focus on renewable energy litigation. During Edwards’ past two terms as governor, which has spanned eight years, the Democrat has prioritized developing and expanding Louisiana’s renewable energy sources and reducing the state’s carbon dioxide emissions. Prior to entering the political world, Edwards, who was unable to run for governor again because of consecutive term limits, was a trial attorney who had opened a civil law practice in his hometown of Amite.
A NEW ORDINANCE APPROVED BY THE ELTON TOWN COUNCIL ON DECEMBER TWENTY-EIGHTH REDUCES THE TIME RESIDENTS HAVE TO PAY WATER BILLS BEFORE THE WATER IS SHUT OFF. UNDER THE ORDINANCE, RESIDENTS HAVE UNTIL THE FIFTEENTH OF THE MONTH TO PAY BEFORE A TEN PERCENT LATE FEE IS APPLIED. IF THE BILL IS STILL NOT PAID BY THE TWENTY-SIXTH, THE WATER WILL BE SHUT OFF AND A FIFTY DOLLAR DISCONNECT FEE WILL BE ADDED TO THE BILL. PREVIOUSLY RESIDENTS HAD UP TO TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE WATER WAS DISCONNECTED.
TWO BURGER KING LOCATIONS IN LAFAYETTE HAVE CLOSED. THEY ARE THE BURGER KINGS ON JOHNSTON STREET NEAR THE U-L CAMPUS AND THE ONE ON THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY AT JEFFERSON BOULEVARD. THEY HAVE PERMANENTLY CLOSED AND THE SIGNAGE HAS BEEN REMOVED. FOUR HUNDRED BURGER KINGS ACROSS THE NATION, THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS OLDER AND UNDERPERFORMING, ARE EXPECTED TO BE SHUT DOWN.
AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN THE FATAL SHOOTING OF THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JOHN DAVIS OF OPELOUSAS. DAVIS’ BODY WAS FOUND INSIDE HIS HOME ON SOUTH RAILROAD AVENUE ON DECEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ABRAHAM L. GOODLEY OF OPELOUSAS WAS ARRESTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH JAIL ON CHARGES OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND ILLEGAL USE OF WEAPONS.
MORE OF GOVENOR-ELECT JEFF LANDRY’S SENIOR STAFF HIRES HAVE BEEN MADE PUBLIC. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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A VACANT SPACE AT THE CORNER OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR DRIVE AND SCHLESSINGER STREET IN ABBEVILLE WILL BE THE HOME OF A NEW COMMUNITY CENTER. CONSTRUCTION IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN JUNE. IT WILL BE CALLED THE REVEREND JAMES A. HEROD COMMUNITY CENTER. HEROD WAS KNOWN AS A PILLAR FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY AND HE SOUGHT TO EMPOWER AFRICAN AMERICANS THROUGH EDUCATION AND MINISTRY.
